Jared Seligman’s former assistant claims he made her pick up his drugs and subjected her to awkward encounters after he had sex with men. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Gotham Magazine)

A Botox-using real estate broker tormented his personal assistant by making her listen to him having loud sex and buy him drugs, a new lawsuit alleges.

Douglas Elliman's Jared Seligman — who "reigns among the highest producing brokers in Manhattan and within the Country," according to the firm — hired Amy Gagnon in May 2016.

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When she took the job, Gagnon knew working as a personal assistant to a well-heeled broker would mean "putting up with indignities that most people never have to experience" — but hoped it would help her break into the industry.

"What Ms. Gagnon did not know, and could not possibly anticipate, is that the price she was asked to pay in exchange for this experience would require her to partake in the sexual predilections and illegal activity of her boss," Gagnon's lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan Federal Court, alleges.

When contacted for comment, Jared Seligman said in a statement: "I do not comment on scurrilous accusations and will discredit them in the appropriate forum."

Asked about the lawsuit, Douglas Elliman said in a statement that "Amy Gagnon was not an employee of, or affiliated with, Douglas Elliman, and was never hired or fired by the company."

"To our knowledge, Ms. Gagnon was employed personally by Jared Seligman as an assistant. It would not be appropriate to comment further," the statement added.

Soon after Gagnon started working for Seligman, the broker tried to "strong arm Ms. Gagnon into helping support his drug habit, asking her to find and purchase drugs for his use, despite her objections about how abhorrent she found such behavior," the papers allege.

When Gagnon refused, Seligman would ignore her and force her to pick up packages containing drugs from his doorman.

After the drugs came Seligman's "sexual proclivities."

Seligman made Gagnon work from his apartment on a day his doctor was scheduled to come over "for his Botox injections," the suit says.

"Mr. Seligman then began to roughly grope the doctor in front of Ms. Gagnon, gabbing his crotch," court papers say.

On another occasion, Gagnon was made to work from Seligman's home, when a "strange man" came over. The two men then went into a bedroom and "engaged in loud and unmistakable sexual intercourse."

Seligman must have known Gagnon could overhear his "raucous" romp because of the close quarters "and wanted her to do so," according to her lawyers, Jeanne Christensen and Renan Varghese of Wigdor LLP.

"In fact, Mr. Seligman left little doubt about his intentions when, shortly after the other man left, Mr. Seligman came out of his room wearing nothing but his bathrobe and smirked at Ms. Gagnon," the civil complaint maintains.

Gagnon says she was fired in early December, after complaining. She also alleges Seligman didn't pay her overtime as promised.